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Want a Data-Driven Organization? Start with Your Talent Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

But, unlocking the full potential of what is possible requires a talent strategy tightly aligned with your company's data analytics strategy. To avoid falling behind and making costly mistakes, here are two essential talent strategy steps you need to take now. The table below shows the expected employee skills from 2015 to 2030.

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“Retiring? Why? What then?!”

Kai Davis

Behind the scenes, I’ve been working on marketing and strategy for kai davis dot com in advance of a Q1/Q2 marketing push. This was both metric and sanity driven!). And for that, I used a metrics-based approach. I took some time and: Aggregated all product purchase information since 2015 (!). Second: “Why?”.

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

to 17.9%, from 1980 to 2015. These means they are not good at one-on-one conversations, cultural sensitivity, listening, team building, managing their emotions, managing conflict, or communicating vision and strategy clearly. CEOs focus on data, facts, figures, and metrics. We know everything. We don’t need to change.”

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2016 Top 10 U.S. MBA programs for Management Consulting

Management Consulted

2015 class size: 635. The Class of 2015 had a full 35% of its graduates accept offers in the consulting field, and Kellogg has become a hot recruiting spot across top firms – but especially for McKinsey. 2015 class size: 259. The average starting base salary for a Tuck grad entering consulting in 2015 was over $137,000.

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What You Need to Know About Globalization’s Radical New Phase

BCG

For instance, the growth of global gross domestic product (GDP)—one of the traditional metrics of globalization—fell from a high of 6% in the 1960s to 3% in 2015. To succeed in this new era, companies need to think about globalization in a different way, using different metrics, and devise a new framework to develop winning strategies.

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Bridging Organization Design and Performance

Kates Kesler

The economic recovery of 2010-2015 has triggered a number of high-profile mergers, but even more break-ups and spin-offs among large global companies, particularly those based in the US. Have conglomerates and diversified companies under-performed because of failures in enterprise strategy? Greg Kesler and Amy Kates.

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How Nokia Embraced the Emotional Side of Strategy

Harvard Business

How do emotions shape strategy making? These actions increased trust and led to a more open dialogue about the company’s strategy. Practice #2: Reduce emotional attachment to the prevailing strategy by generating many new options – not just one alternative. ANTTI AIMO-KOIVISTO/Stringer. Getty Images.